Motor neuron disease (MND) is a devastating condition that causes progressive muscle weakness by damaging the motor neurons, ...

Most textbooks credit nearby epithelial cells with the heavy lifting of organ building, because epithelial sheets act like ...

Motor neuron disease (MND) refers to a group of progressive neurological disorders that affect the motor neurons, which are nerve cells responsible for controlling voluntary muscle movement.

University of Western Australia research reveals how cells convert physical exercise forces into energy production responses.

A team of Indian American scientists led by Pallavi Gopal are working to learn more about the dynamics of a protein to help ...

Motor neuron articles from across Nature Portfolio Motor neurons project from the central nervous system to innervate muscle cells to either directly or indirectly control their activity. Contact ...

Multifocal motor neuropathy (MMN) is a rare disease that causes slowly worsening muscle weakness, mainly in your hands, arms, and legs. It affects your body's motor nerves, which control your muscles.

A motor unit refers to a motor neuron, the nerve cell that controls muscular activity, and the muscle fibers that it controls. Whenever a motor unit is active, the motor neuron releases acetylcholine ...

Neurons are the basic cellular unit of the nervous system. The structure of the neuron includes: Cell body: In the cell body, neurons store genetic material and produce energy to function. Axon: Axons ...

Cedars-Sinai has created a lifelike model of the mysterious and fatal disease that could help identify a cause of the illness ...

Mitochondrial abnormalities, or problems in cells' powerhouses, contribute to nerve cell death linked to motor control in MS, ...

Stanford researchers discovered that dialing down an overactive enzyme, LRRK2, can regrow lost cellular “antennae” in key ...